15th Annual Innovations in Design, Analysis, and Dissemination: Frontiers in Biostatistics & Data Science Meeting

Sponsors: Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, the Kansas Western-Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and the
Quantitative Omics Core that supports the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine

Program at a glance:

Day 1 Program Zoom URL:https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/95530492223
Thursday, April 21st 2022
8:45a - 9:00a	Opening Remarks: Matthew Mayo, Ph.D., MBA, Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, University of Kansas Medical Center
9:00a - 10:00a	Keynote Lecture: Hui Zou, PhD, Sparse Convoluted Rank Regression in High Dimensions
10:00a - 10:05a	Break
10:10a - 11:00a	Invited/Contributed Presentations: Invited Speaker: Andres Bur, MD, Applications of Machine Learning in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Head and Neck Cancers Contributed Presentations: Xiaoqiang Xue, DrPh, Bayesian Two-stage design for Pediatric study
11:00a - 11:10a	Break
11:10a - 12:00p	Invited/Contributed Presentations: Contributing Speaker: Kate Young, MS, Estimation and Inference on the Partial Volume under the ROC Surface Invited Speaker: Peisong Han, PhD, Integrating external summary information from heterogeneous populations
12:00p - 1:00p	Panel Discussion: Leadership and Mentoring in the Quantitative Sciences Moderator: Devin Koestler, PhD Panelists: Leslie McClure, PhD; Linda Young, PhD; Kevin Chartier, PhD
1:00p - 1:10p	Break
1:10p - 2:00p	Invited/Contributed Presentations: Invited Speaker: Keith Feldman, PhD, A Computational Framework to Improve Matching in Case-Control Study Designs Invited Speaker: Ching Kang, PhD,Testing for Bioequivalence of Highly Variable Drugs from TR-RT Crossover Designs
Day 2 Program Zoom URL:https://kumc-ois.zoom.us/j/95530492223
Friday, April 22nd 2022
8:55a - 9:00a	Opening Remarks
9:00a - 9:50a	Journey Lecture Series: Journey Speaker: Scott Berry, PhD, There and Back Again: A Statistician's Tale
09:51a - 10:00a	Break
10:00a - 11:00a	Mini Workshop: Speaker: Milind Phadnis, PhD, Sample Size Calculations for Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoint in the Case of Non-Proportional Hazards using the Concept of Relative Time
11:00a - 11:10a	Break
11:10a - 12:00p	Invited/Contributed Presentations: Invited Speaker: Mihaela Sardiu, PhD, Energy Distribution of a Modified Directed Polymer/Percolation Problem and the Score Statistics of Global Sequence Alignment Contributing Speaker: Joonha Park, PhD, Sampling from multimodal distributions using tempered Hamiltonian transitions
12:00p - 1:00p	Poster Session: https://idad2022.virtualpostersession.org/ Password: IDAD2022
1:00p - 1:10p	Break
1:10p - 2:50p	Invited/Contributed Presentations: Contributing Speaker: Tyler Bastian, Statistical methods to predict future risk of suicidal ideation from social media data Invited Speaker: Lu Xia, PhD, Statistical Inference for Correlated Data with High-Dimensional Covariates Contributing Speaker: Sreejata Dutta, Combining Modern Machine Learning Techniques for Rare Event Prediction using Flow Cytometry Data Contributing Speaker: Shelby Bell-Glenn, MS, A Novel Framework for the Identification of Reference DNA Methylation Libraries for Reference-Based Deconvolution of Cellular Mixtures
2:50p - 2:55p	Closing Remarks